Travelling (defined by me - and this is by no means the definitive definition, just that which defines my own travels - as going to far-off foreign lands with no intention of ever really coming home to 'settle down'. This excludes in equal measure package holidays and the 'Gap Year')Doing Fun Things (going to sporting events, gigs, festivals, funfairs, the seaside and so forth)Learning New Things (anything really)Keeping Busy, Mentally and Physically (thinking too much, reading, writing, weight-training, running jumping climbing trees)
Any bugger really. People with similar interests or completely different ones. Anyone. You.
Favourites: Wonderstuff, Arcade Fire, Carter USM, Killers, DJ Format, Jurassic 5, Gang Starr, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Miss Black America, The Visions, Kanye West, Pop Will Eat Itself, Manics, Pulp, Blur, Ozomatli, Moloko, Borodin, Mozart, Puccini, Bizet, Beth Orton, Orbital, The Streets, The Delgados, Mr Scruff, The Proclaimers, Billy Bragg, Levellers, The Smiths, Blackalicious, The Killers, Gorillaz, and basically anyone who does what they do well, in pretty much any genre.
Hero, Amelie, Monty Python's Holy Grail, South Park, Bladerunner, Casablanca, Goodfellas, Serenity, Training Day, Fight Club, LOTR, Lion King, Godfathers 1 and 2, Star Wars 4, 5 and 6, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Goonies, Batman (1989) and Batman Begins, Spiderman 2, Drunken Master, Matrix, Independence Day, Transformers the Movie, Starchaser, Kill Bill 1, Top Gun, The Rock, any Bond except the last 3 Brosnans and the middle Roger Moore ones (though the new one gets a bit lost in the last third I reckon), Indiana Jones 1 and 3, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Super Troopers, Full Metal Jacket, North by Northwest, Vertigo, Rear Window, Twelve Angry Men, It's a Wonderful Life, Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Labyrinth, A Knight's Tale, Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet, Usual Suspects, 21 Grams, City of God, Memento, The Grudge, King Kong (any), Goonies, Inside Man, Hotel Rwanda.
I watch more these days, cos I live so far from home and so far from anywhere else to. So, here's some from now and before: House, Smallville, 24, Buffy (except the first and last seasons), Simpsons, English/European Football (that's soccer, kids), News (channel 4, preferably), Scrubs, Two and Half Men, Star Treks TNG and DS9, Babylon 5, Stargate SG1, Frasier, The Office, Top Gear, Cracker, Extras, Spaced, Richard and Judy.
My faves would be: Waterland by Graham Swift; Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card; Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien; The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks; Dead Babies by Martin Amis; The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger; Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. But I don't read a whole lot. Kind of strange, what with me being an English teacher and all. Ah well...